Darrell E Issa

Of all the bait-and-switch tricks, the one that both political and corporate America are pulling on American workers has to be among the meanest. For years, and especially since the Great Recession, American workers, in particular those who earned their bread in the “old economy,” have heard a single message: Bootstrap yourselves. Go back to school. Learn the new trades and professions. Make yourselves tech-savvy and marketable, and you’ll have no problem finding jobs in the tech economy, the information economy. Tell that to about 250 former Disney employees, and about 400 ex-Southern California Edison people. The Disney data systems employees in Orlando and the...

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